Howdy Tulpas, welcome to the eighteenth edification of HACK. If you’ve made it this far then you’ve probably heard the ol’ aphorism, “Brevity is the soul of wit” or in other words…
Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech is the spiritual or immaterial part of mental sharpness and inventiveness.
This week: I got nothing. Well, I have lots of things but no patience to expound on any of them. So over five days of vacation last week I wrote little bits on lots of stuff. I guess my brain just needed to upload it all and clear the cache. I could’ve just used the apostrophe bit below and called it a HACK. However, since I spent many hours doing nothing but sitting in a den of iniquity hacking all this jibba jabba out, I’m just going to share it all with y’all. See what I did there? I used an apostrophe to denote the contraction of ‘you’ and ‘all.’
Read on, dear Readers. With patience it’ll all make sense. I promise to have something more relevant to your world just as soon as it becomes relevant in mine. READ MORE »
Of all the religious concepts I have created and toyed with in the years — and it is strange to realize how many I have created, from the Book Of Spoons to the Church Of The Auto-Deity to Nasirology to Crypto-Solipsism — out of all of them, probably my proudest moment was the creation of Gluurg. Gluurg is just like God, you see. Except he’s not God, he’s Gluurg. Later on I ret-conned that Gluurg stood for something. Galactic Lifeform Universal Something Something Something. I believe the proper term is “backronym.” But really there was no meaning. I liked the sound of Gluurg. I liked spelling it with the double u. The point of Gluurg is that Gluurg means nothing. Because Gluurg is just like God. Except he’s not God, he’s Gluurg. 
